Published March 09. 2021 2:56PM Bill Stanley, Special to The Times At a time when racial justice is a, if not the, top priority in many American communities of various sizes, a number of those same communities have been torn apart by racial strife. With one side prone to violence and destruction to vent its anger and the other side either over-responding with its own violence or, worse, doing nothing at all, divisions that should be healing only get worse. We’ve heard the extremes such as defund the police and, from the other side, answer violence with violence. Neither will work, and so the fires of hatred and resentment merely intensify.
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Norwich Asked by members of the Norwich NAACP youth council how youths could become more involved in improving relations between the police and the community, police Chief Patrick Daley told them to do more of what they did Thursday evening. Members of the NAACP Robertsine Duncan Youth Council hosted an hourlong forum Thursday with police and city leaders that started with prepared questions and progressed to a frank discussion about the distrust of police felt by some youths of color. “Getting a conversation at a certain age about how to handle a situation when the police approach you because of something like the color of your skin,” youth council member Joceline Rodrigues said. “We’re taught, hands on the wheel, or on the dash, don’t reach for anything, somehow stand your ground, but somehow be more submissive to protect yourself.”
NORWICH Nearly eight months after the brutal death of George Floyd, a Black man who suffocated under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer’s knee, Norwich police officials and minority community members are reflecting on how that shocking incident and the subsequent protests it engendered have affected their relationship. On June 2, eight days after the 46-year-old man’s death, more than 100 protesters walked from City Hall to Norwich police headquarters off Thames Street carrying signs and a lot of anger. For hours, rally members, many of them young people of color, chanted and vented their frustration over what several said was just the latest incident marking a long history of law enforcement treating their peers in other parts of the country with unjust deadly force.